Headlight attachment.



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HEADLIGHT ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION FILED mm2. |915.

1 1 37,22 1 Patented Apr. 27, 1915.

WILLIAM F. LENNON, 0F WILLIMANTIC, CONNECTICUT.

HEADLIGHT ATTACHMENT.

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Specieaton of Letters Patent.

Patented apr. 2a, 1915.

Application filed February 12, 1915. Serial No. 7,668.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, WILLIAM FRANCIS LENNON, a citizen of the United States,'re siding at Willimantic, `Windham county, State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inHeadlight Attachments, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description.

My invention relates to an improved safety device for electric headlights for automobiles, the object being to provide a very simple, inexpensive and eifective means for controlling the rays of light so as to prevent a glare in the eyes of any one approaching.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a central longitudinal section of the reflector with an incandescent lamp in place with my deflector 'associated therewith in operative position. Fig. 2 is a perspective viewl of the delector detached. Fig. 3 is a central sectional view of the deector.

1 represents conventionally headlight reflector.

2 represents the glass bulb of an electric incandescent lamp-the same having a glass tip 3 and a plug 4.

5 represents the main body of a deflector or hood which is so shaped asfto fit on to one side of the bulb 2. The deflector or hood is constructed so that it is frictionally held in place by being engaged at its front edge with the glass tip 3 and at its rear edge with the rear part of the bulb adjacent to the plug 4. The forward edge of the deiector the usual is preferably provided with two slits form' ing between them a yielding spring clip 6 which is recessed or perforated to slip over the glass tip 3 to yieldingly engage the tip or the bulb at the tip end. The rear edge of the delector is preferably recessed to afford clearance for the plug 4. Those partsof the deflector on each side of this recess are so shaped as to embrace the lamp and hold the rear edge of the delector in place. These engaging parts on each side of said recess are preferably slightly extended to form integral spaced clips 7-7. I may, if desired, provide a yielding non-metallic pad 8 at the inside of the deector to yieldingly engage the tip 3 or the glass adjacent to said tip, thus reducing the danger of breakage to a minimum. It is well known that the glass used in bulbs of this sort is exceedingly thin and fragile andl may be easily broken. Since 'such devices as herein disclosed are subject to much vibration, a rigid engagement of the bulb at the tip 3 would invite breakage, but by my improved structure a non-rigid engagement is effected at this point'so that the danger of breakage is rendered practically negligible.

The pad 8 may be formed in any suitable way, for example, it may comprise a non- -metallic eyelet which may be carried by the spring clip 6 as shown.

The deflector may be adjusted to any desired position and may rest upon the top of, or be located under the bulb when the latter is in operative position. The particular location and adjustment of the deflector of course depends upon the particular design of the reflector 1. Since the engagement of the delector with the glass bulb is a yielding one suflicient friction is afforded to hold the deiector in any adjusted position.Vv The interior of the body 5 may be brightened or silvered so as` to direct the light rays, that would otherwise be cut off, against the reiector 1.

By slitting the deector body it allows the body to expand somewhat so as to adapt itself to an oversized bulb.

Y What I claim is:

1. In a light defiector for an incandescent lamp bulb, a main body portion designed to cover one side of the bulb, a spring clip at the forward edge of said delector arranged to yieldingly engage the tip of the bulb with means at the rear edge of the delector for engaging the rear of the bulb, said last mentioned means comprising two spaced yielding clips integral with said main body.

2. In a deector for an incandescent lamp bulb, a, main body arranged to substantially.

fit and cover one side of the lamp bulb, the forward edge of said body being slitted to form a spring clip, the latter being arranged to yieldingly engage the tip of the bulb, with means at the rear edge of said de- Hector to engage 'the rear of the bulb, said means and said spring clip serving to hold said defiector in place. f

3. In a light deflector for an incandescent lamp bulb, a main body portion designed to cover one sidevof the bulb, a spring clip at the forward edge of said deector arranged to yieldingly engage the tip of the bulb with means at the rear edge of the deilector for engaging the rear of the bulb, said last men- 10 tioned means comprising two spaced ilexible clips, and a non-metallic pad interposed between said spring clip and said bulb.

WILLIAM F. LENNON.

Witnesses:

R. C. MITCHELL, HENDERSON F. HILL. 

